Assistant Treasury Operations Manager

Job Summary
The Assistant Manager – Treasury Operations will support all aspects of
Alghanim´s Corporate Treasury Operations across the Group, respective Business
Units (BUs) and geographies.

This role requires a deep understanding of the banking landscape, banking
products, services and processes (e.g. KYC, VAS, etc.), Corporate Treasury
Operations, business partnering within Corporate Treasuries, DOA and internal
policy setting, Treasury systems, banking systems as well as digitalisation of
Corporate Treasury Operations and processes.

The ideal candidate has working experience in both leading banks as well as
Corporate Treasury, fluent and literate in both English and Arabic and ideally
has legal skills.

Job Responsibilities
Bank relations & bank operations management

 Drive the bank relationship inside and outside of Kuwait

 Assist with the definition, negotiation and administration of bank
partnership agreements incl. bank services catalogue, value-add services (e.g.
POS, collection services, etc.), pricing and benchmarking

 Support with the management of daily bank operations including but not
limited to: banking products, bank accounts incl. signatories &
authorisations, transfers, KYC processing, cards, POS & collection services,
etc.

 Responsible for business partnering to business units (BUs) for all
centrally managed bank services and bank queries

 Play a significant part in achieving internal and external operational
excellence incl. optimisation and digitalisation of internal and external
processes (e.g. business partnering, KYC processing, document management,
workflow digitalisation, service digitalisation) incl. driving of partner
banks to deliver state-of-the-art digital services to Alghanim

Regulatory, compliance, controls & audit

 Lead the overall Corporate Treasury governance framework incl. DOA,
policies, procedures and controls

 Provide regulatory monitoring and advise, define and drive required changes
and improvement of the compliance and control landscape

 Ensure full delivery and compliance of and with internal and external audit
requirements as well as implementation of remedies to potential findings

 Ensure compliance with and support of all internal and external reporting
requirements incl. annual statutory reporting, covenants reporting, etc.

Treasury systems, banking systems & digitalisation

 Support with the governance and oversight of all Treasury systems (Kyriba,
Serrala FS², SWIFT AL2, FXAll, Refinitiv) as well as bank system interfaces
(e.g. online banking portals) incl. negotiation and management of respective
licenses, user administration/ maintenance and ensuring of systems compliance
and controls

 Support with systems implementation and digitalisation projects based on
aligned systems roadmap incl. leading role in MT940 collection & bank account
reconciliation automation

 Apply Treasury document management & workflow digitalisation

Candidate Requirements

Qualifications:
 MBA or an advanced degree in finance or financial management

 CFA, CPA, CTP preferred

Experience Required:
 ‎5 – ‎7 years of experience in the financial industry, preferably a leading
bank

 Minimum ‎5 years of experience in or with corporate treasuries and financial
management in or with corporates

 Experience in business partnering role within Corporate Treasury preferred

Skills/Abilities:
 Must have excellent English language skills (written & business-fluent)

 Preferably, Arabic language skills and legal understanding

 Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

 Excellent organization, planning, and time management skills

 Ability to work in a team environment

 Financial analysis skills

 Interpersonal skills

 Proven negotiation skills with ideally legal skills

 Excellent presentation skills

 Excellent verbal & written communication skills